[9] McCammond wrote about Michael Bloomberg's withdrawal from the 2020 Democratic primary race in March 2020[10] as well as leaked presidential schedules revealing that 60% of Donald Trump's days were devoted to "executive time" while he was president.
Although McCammond never revealed any threat Barkley had made to her, he later issued a public apology for his remark, which was an "attempted joke that was not funny at all."
McCammond replied on Twitter without saying she accepted or appreciated the apology, implying that she equated Barkley's comment to actually being "hit or threatened.
Ducklo, White House deputy press secretary under President Biden, resigned for harassing female Politico reporter Tara Palmeri.
[14] Ducklo reportedly made "derogatory and misogynistic comments" toward Palmeri during a phone call and accused her of being "jealous" of his relationship with McCammond.
[16] Under pressure from the Vanity Fair article that reported the matter, Ducklo resigned the next day from his White House position.
After the appointment, a series of racist, bigoted and homophobic tweets that McCammond posted a decade earlier resurfaced.
[14] In response, Ulta Beauty paused $1 million in advertising in the online-only publication,[20] and McCammond resigned from the position prior to starting.
[22] In July 2024, she faced criticism for an Instagram post about her ex-boyfriend Ducklo, "my toxic ex who works for the Biden campaign and has to play cleanup after that disastrous debate.